A/N- I thought Id keep this on the lighthearted track…seeing as though my previous fics have been a little sad, really, I am funny. :D thanks to all who reviewed and stuff last chap. Glad u all liked it. So here's the next instalment…there's some more Pete whumping for those of you who hate him too.

Chapter 2- Beam me outa here, Scotty

Sam was right, two hours after the sergeant had taken their statements and was deciding wether or not to press charges against Vala for striking a police officer, a dishevelled and anxious looking Daniel walked in the door followed by a rather composed Jack O'Neill.

Jack walked up to the reception desk and rapped his knuckles on the counter. Pete looked up from his desk.

"General O'Neill, nice to see you again." Pete said extending his hand towards Jack.

"Cut the crap, Shanahan. Where are they?" Jack responded curtly.

"Out the back, follow me."

Jack and Daniel followed Pete to where the two women were being held. Vala noticed them first.

"Daniel!" she leapt up from the seat next to her tattooed friend and bounded to the front of the cell. "I missed you." She said as she grabbed his face and kissed him through the bars.

"I missed you too."

Pete looked from Daniel to Jack and then to Sam and Vala. "I'll be out the front if you need me."

Jack nodded to Pete. Vala looked confused. "You know him Sam?"

Sam looked sheepishly down at her feet. "Ex-fiancé," she mumbled.

"Oh," Vala turned her attention back to Jack and Daniel; mainly Daniel. "So you guys gonna beam us outa here, hey Scotty?"

"Not quite. We still have the little fact of bail, and, they may be laying charges on you for hitting Pete." Daniel explained.

"He probably deserved it," Jack said, rolling his eyes, getting a soft giggle from Sam. Jack looked to Sam and just shook his head and smiled; understanding, that's what they had called it.

"I didn't mean to hit anyone, it just happened; I snapped."

"I'll hit the guy if you want me to, Little Miss," added the Bulldozer who stood up next to Vala, towering a foot above her. His arms the width of legs, tattooed from the neck down. Vala grinned at Daniel who looked completely shocked at his girlfriend's new-found protector.

Jack looked over at him. "What's ya name?"

"Bulldozer," replied Sam and Vala together

"Gee, I wonder why?"

The man only smiled and crossed his arms over his chest and sat back down on the small bench.

Jack looked at both of the women who were standing shoulder to shoulder in the cell.

"I'll go sort out Pete, and Daniel, you can keep 'em company while I'm gone."

Daniel nodded at Jack before turning back towards his friends. He put his arm through the bars and brushed his thumb over Vala's bruised cheek and slight gash on top of her nose. She winced slightly in pain. Sam looked just as bad as Vala did. Her eye beginning to show signs of slight blackening and lip swollen and split.

"What were you guys thinking? Fighting in the middle of the street?" he asked looking slightly confused as to why best friends would suddenly turn on each other.

"It was my fault, Daniel. I threw the first punch," Vala confessed.

"Don't worry about it, you had your reasons," Sam encouraged.

"I still don't get it, Sam. Why did this happen in the first place?" Daniel was getting frustrated and they all knew it.

Without warning, Bulldozer leapt up from where he was sitting and grabbed a hold of Daniel's shirt through the bars.

"If the little miss doesn't want to talk about it, let it go!"

Vala yanked on Bulldozer's arm, "It's ok, let him go."

"I don't trust him," he narrowed his eyes to look squarely at Daniel as she continued to keep a hold of him.

"Well, I do, seeing as he's my boyfriend and all that. Now, please let him go, and I promise to invite you to the wedding."

Bulldozer turned his head to look at Vala as she nodded at him. Slowly he let go of Daniel.

Daniel straightened his shirt, and then suddenly as if he'd just figured out what she said, his head jerked up and he gazed into her eyes, "Wedding?"

"Yes, Daniel. Wedding," Vala replied with a determined smirk playing on her lips.

He leaned in and kissed her lightly, "Oh good, just seeing if we're on the same page."

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Jack peered over the counter to look down at Pete.

"Can I help you with something, General?" Pete asked with irritation in his voice.

"Yeah you can actually, a few things to be precise," he replied with a familiar snark about him that Pete knew only too well. "How 'bout I start with asking you why the hell you had to arrest one of the most highly decorated Colonels in the Air Force? Not to mention the fact that by doing so you could have ruined the most heavily guarded secret since cover-up of the so-called moon landing."

"Have you finished ranting?"

"No, not quite," Jack continued. "And what's the deal with you laying charges on Vala? She's like half your size, how would it be to go to court and tell the judge that a slight little woman broke your nose? Oooh, big tough Pete got beat up by a girl." Jack loved every minute of the taunting process. Pete deserved all the crap he was handed; not to mention the beating he received from Vala. It was a perfectly placed punch; directly between the eyes on the bridge of his nose. That would hurt for a long while yet.

Pete stood up to face to face with Jack. "Listen, I don't know what your deal is and I don't really care. I'm just doing my job," he said defending himself.

"You suck at your job, Shanahan. Now, let me pay this bail, let the two girls go and I promise you, that you will never see our faces here again. Personally, I think Sam never wanted to see you anyway. Vala doesn't really know you, but I'm pretty sure she would hit you again." Jack grinned at Pete who squirmed where he stood.

"Fine, the bail is $1000 each, they'll be free to go after you pay up. A minor misdemeanour will be written into their official records," Pete explained.

"I think that'll be ok, they just want to get home." Jack handed over his credit card.

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When Jack returned, they were all surprised to see Pete with him holding keys getting ready to unlock the cell door.

"Ms Mal Doran, Ms Carter. You are both free to go." Pete told them as he opened the door for them to be let out.

As they walked out, Vala turned back and flashed Bulldozer one of her biggest smiles. "Thank you, Bulldozer. I'll come and visit you in jail."

"You're welcome, Little Miss. And you, nerdy man," his finger was pointed directly at Daniel. "Make sure you look after her or there will be no jail that will stop me from hurting you," Bulldozer continued with his threat as Daniel continued to stand with his arm around Vala's waist.

"I will."

Daniel looked at Vala and whispered, "What did he do?"

"Armed hold-up, robbery and arson," she whispered back nonchalantly.

"Great guy," he replied with a roll of his eyes.

"Much like someone else I know," she said as she kissed his cheek.

Daniel smiled as she walked out of his grasp and tackle hugged Sam whilst never taking a look back at the police station as they made their way to Jack's truck.

The End

A/N- Thanks to Becca I dunno what I'd do without you.

I'm leaving this here cos there will be a whole new story coming your way soon…. I just have to write it. Please read and review, they make my day.